“Freedom works for me but I want to also control millions of other people, for the good of me and their own good since they don’t know any better”

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ligne 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

"Well you need to exercise more and eat more vegetables" is true, but it's only practicable advice if people have access to exercise facilities and healthy food, and the time to make use of them. Otherwise you may as well be blaming fire victims for not being incombustible.

	▲	hammock a day ago \| parent [-]
		“You need to x” is still the (apparently flawed?) personal responsibility model. Replace “you” with “we will do x to you whether you like it or not” and now we’re talking

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bjustin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

“Finding and halting the boot stomping on your friends and neighbors is a violation of your friends’ and neighbors’ freedoms”

	▲	hammock a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds nice but is that what you really mean? The government created Covid, let it leak from a lab and now people want to give them power to force millions of innocent people take the medicine they also created. “Finding and halting the boot” would look a little different from that in my mind